9/11 wasn’t just a tragedy... it was a turning point.
A trigger.
A door that opened and never closed. In the name of security, governments rewrote the rules of freedom, expanding their power in ways that never rolled back. Surveillance, detention without trial, shoot-to-kill policies... first for terrorists, then for whoever they decided was next. From the Patriot Act to pandemic lockdowns, this episode traces the blueprint of authority, showing how each crisis feeds the next, and how control, once claimed, is never surrendered.